Be careful not to destroy all of your Medicare claims by turning them into false claims.
Category: ASC
Look at it like this: You can finally say goodbye to all those folks in suits who have their hands in your pockets.
As the shift of surgeries from the hospital setting to the ASC setting accelerates, we’re seeing more fraud at the ASC level. No, I’m not talking about the significant amount of fraud that comes from the “usual suspects,” criminal operators who bill for medically unnecessary procedures, for procedures that never occurred, and so on. Instead, […]
New Years Day, 2018. Are you prepared to be unreasonable this year? Or would you rather continue to bet on the healthcare status quo, that is, on a hospital-centric system? Or, is being “unreasonable” actually more reasonable? George Bernard Shaw stated that “the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in […]
Naughty or Nice? This year, Santa brought a lump of coal to Tenet’s Abrazo Maryvale hospital campus. Rumored to be accompanied by the Grinch for extra muscle, he padlocked the 232-bed Phoenix area facility. All kidding aside, the hospital fell victim to, in the words of its spokesman, “dwindling patient volumes.” As a reader of […]
Ride along with Mark Weiss as he discusses how you as a physician can apply concepts from indoor farming to your development of ASCs and other independent healthcare facilities.
Once again, the facility is no longer an ASC either for safe harbor or for Medicare billing purposes.
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives simultaneously placed another nail in the coffin of hospitals and gave a tremendous boost to ambulatory surgery centers and their physician owners. That’s because the House passed the 21st Century Cures Act, Medicare legislation that the Senate is expected to pass next week. The law includes two provisions of […]
Driving through the mountain town built around a lake, I couldn’t help but notice the David Isaac empire. (David Isaac isn’t his real name, I’ve changed it for this post.) There was David Isaac Boat Sales. A mile or so away, there was the David Isaac Marina. And, there was David Isaac Toyota. A quick […]
You can see why it’s so tempting for unscrupulous hospital CEOs to offer kickbacks to physicians.
